Pani Piyo! - Drink Water!

This blog was started in February 2007, at first for documenting the shaping of my freestyle kayak (most of it is in french, except a summary in german). "Pani Piyo" is the name of the kayak and means "drink water!" in Hindi, one of the main Indian languages. It is also dedicated to many other things and you can browse through the different categories: "Overland to India 2007-2008", "Pani piyo 2008" for informations on building a kayak with vacuum bagging (in French or German), "Building a paddle", "Wood - Carpentry", or "Miscellaneous" for various other things which I'm interested in and which might interest you. I apologise for the many languages that I use here. It is a bit difficult for a french guy living in Austria. I want to reach as many people as possible, but I sometimes miss the necessary vocabulary to write all what i would like in english.

 



This month (August 2009), we decided to learn how to use the woodworking machine of my grandfather in Toulouse. There was enough wood in the workshop to build the mezzanine we had planned. First, some of the raw wood. Most of it were beautiful oak pieces which had been stored here for more than […]
Publié dans : Wood - Carpentry
Mardi 1 septembre 2009 2 01 /09 /2009 10:28


Es war dieses Jahr wieder der 10 Juli im „Garten der Früchte“ von Joel, Mary und Alice. Dieser Tag ist nicht nur der Geburtstag von Joel, ein Freund bei dem wir jedes Jahr mit der Arbeit in dem Garten helfen kommen, sondern auch die jährliche Weinbeer Ernte!   Und es ist jedes Mal so: wenn wir […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Dimanche 2 août 2009 7 02 /08 /2009 17:47


Mona hat ein Kombi-Spilezeug für ihren Neffe Jonathan entwickelt. Michael (mein Tischlermeister) hat uns in seiner Werkstatt eingeladen und uns bei den entscheidenden Arbeitsschritte geholfen. Jonathan ist noch etwas zu jung um die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten dieses Kombistücks zu nutzen, aber es […]
Publié dans : Wood - Carpentry
Mercredi 22 juillet 2009 3 22 /07 /2009 12:55


On Friday July 17 we were on the road, hitch-hiking between Austria and Spain. In the morning, we just had a good ride of about 200km, from Buchs (Austrian-Swiss border) to Bern. But this time, in the Grauholz service station before Bern, our lucky star made us meet Paula, who came to us asking […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Dimanche 19 juillet 2009 7 19 /07 /2009 20:42


... or how to eat for free by diving into the overflow of the society.  Most people don't know about the amazing quantity of food ending up every day in the garbages of supermarkets. One of my favorite activities at the moment is "dumpster diving", the practice of getting (fresh) food out of […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Samedi 27 juin 2009 6 27 /06 /2009 16:35


Apres avoir reussi une premiere pagaie, je vais mettre ici des photos de nouvelles pales avec differents designs. Pour les details sur la construction, allez voir dans Construction de pagaies - 1 (le moule) et Construction de pagaies - 2 (la premiere pagaie). Je viens de trouver des couleurs […]
Publié dans : Building a paddle
Vendredi 1 mai 2009 5 01 /05 /2009 11:32

I recently felt the motivation to start again researching about how to make life better on this earth, and came across Anarchy. Here I will put some ideas which I hope won't offense anybody. My opinion about anarchy has been for a long time the following (I might be wrong because i had few […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Lundi 27 avril 2009 1 27 /04 /2009 14:40


Cet article fait suite a Construction de pagaies - 1 ou j'explique le shape de la pagaie, la construction du moule et des noyaux en mousse polyurethane. Samedi 4 Avril 2009: construction de la premiere pale! J'ai choisi de la faire noire.  - Poids de fibre: 270g. J'ai mis 5 couches sur chaque […]
Publié dans : Building a paddle
Dimanche 5 avril 2009 7 05 /04 /2009 09:12


What do Tarzan, the rainforest and meat consumption have in common? The answer to this question appeared to me like a flash after a long night working in the Konzerthaus (I do the wardrobe there and this time I had to work until 3:30am). The event this night was an award ceremony for promotion […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Samedi 4 avril 2009 6 04 /04 /2009 10:55

(Last Update: 18-10-2009) During a travel in India in winter 2007-2008, I found the indian edition of "The one straw revolution: an introduction to natural farming" of Masanobu Fukuoka in a library of Delhi. The preface of this indian edition was written by Partap C. Aggarwal. In this preface, […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Vendredi 2 janvier 2009 5 02 /01 /2009 12:36


EAU DE TOILETTE - VIENNE Some of the best ads ever seen. Its about the wastewater treatment plant of Vienna, the most modern of its kind in the world. That's what Ebs - the company running it - says on its website www.ebs.co.at Wastewater treatment interested me a lot, and I studied this […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Mercredi 31 décembre 2008 3 31 /12 /2008 12:05

Found on http://community.livejournal.com/stolngeneration/4581.html (From "Sanjay Sangvai", Sun, November 14, 2004 9:15 pm). I find that it's fitting nice to the name of this blog: Pani, nahi - Pepsi Piyo (Don’t’ drink water- have Pepsi). Say India’s Super Star Amitabh Bachhan. Other Stars […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Jeudi 18 décembre 2008 4 18 /12 /2008 23:05


We built this bed quite some time ago (Autumn 2005), but I  still  wanted to put some photos on the net. It's not easy to live 2 people in a 30sqm flat, and a loft bed was necessary specially because we have a lot of guests from hospitalityclub visiting us. First step the foot. It's a branch of […]
Publié dans : Wood - Carpentry
Lundi 13 octobre 2008 1 13 /10 /2008 12:22


6 Octobre : Inspire par le travail de Kevlar je me lance dans la fabrication d'un moule de pagaie. J'ai pris des mesures sur la Chili pour ne pas partir les yeux fermes. J'aime sa forme et pour l'avoir essayee une fois j'en ai ete tres satisfait.  J'ai commence par dessiner des profils en carton […]
Publié dans : Building a paddle
Jeudi 9 octobre 2008 4 09 /10 /2008 18:59


I finally realised this project of slide-didgeridoo. It is a PVC pipe above which I stratified fiber glass. The cone was built on a polystyrene shape. I'm satisfied with the sound, and it will allow me to travel with an instrument that i can tune. I still didn't check exactly what the key rage […]
Publié dans : Miscellaneous
Dimanche 14 septembre 2008 7 14 /09 /2008 13:37
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